BobWarfield

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SaaS Benchmarks
1 points by BobWarfield 7y ago|1 comments
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
Ctrl-xcv still work there, you can cut and paste. Interestingly article, but it says more about how to be a Growth Hacker Advisor than how to be a Growth Hacker. Of course, that is likely what he learned since he presumbaly already knew ho
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
Riddles are useless interview tools. When I am building a new dev team or adding to an existing one, I care about two things: 1. Did the candidate make a critical contribution to a piece of technology that I respect. I will start by aski
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
Never met a recruiter who was as considerate of my time as I was of theirs. Interesting this one has the opposite problem.
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
The scary thing is I can't decide if this is more of a critique of people who hire programmers or of the different tools (e.g. woods and hammers) that programmers use.
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
A lot of the foundation of Agile is improving communication. Communication works better face to face. Whether there are mitigating factors such as not being able to get really awesome people to participate is another question, but I've no
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
Wouldn't it be nice if defending against frivolous patents didn't cost $1.5M. Unfortunately, it does cost that much. There are 3 problems that make this so: 1. The courts are unpredictable. You can be right and still lose. The cost of lo
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
Less than 1000 visits and we're already going to start chalking up the wisdom that's been learned? This is way too early and the traffic achieved is well down into the noise. CPC is mildly interesting, but what was the real conversion rate
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
Smart people are assholes, it goes with the territory. Not all, but many are. It's insecurity coupled with the incredible pain that comes when other smart people catch you being wrong. Ain't innate primate behavior a bitch?
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
Agree with the sentiment. It seems like sliders are there for gratuitous sex and violence (to paraphrase a line from Never Say Never). In other words, on commercial sites that don't have much to say, but they just want something even remot
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
What a pity the lawyers have misinterpreted the patent to mean that the application's language itself should be non-obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art.
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
CNCCookbook is my solo startup: http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/a-solo-bootstrapp...
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
If he can learn 37 programming languages, he can learn how to market well enough to bootstrap a company. This is just a long list of excuses not to even get started. There are so many reasons not to get started, so many reasons you will f
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
This article assumes all knowledge is equally valuable, equally hard to gain, and decays at the same rate, but none of that is true. Frameworks change constantly, computer languages less frequently, and architectural notions much less frequ
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
Nooooo. They are being managed by software. Facebook has 1 admin per 1000 MySQL instances. You can't do that except with software. If the DevOps guy is spending much time touching servers, you got the wrong guy. I've been through this m
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
The scariest thing in the article is the unemployment graph from Calculated Risk. Isn't it interested at how Wall Street has gotten better and better at inflating bubbles that take longer and longer to recover from. I just wish the gov't w
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
Wealth is not revenue, it is income that comes about in abundance. To increase income either increase revenue or decrease expenses. It turns out that decreasing expenses is nearly risk free and is easier. Hence the Millionaires Next Door
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
At this late stage in the game, learning a new language for me is a matter of deciding on a project and building it while keeping some appropriate reference at hand. If I read a book linearly at all it's to read just enough to get the "Hel
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
"VC-istan innovation is over" Maybe. Much as I'd like to believe it, there are some things that can't be bootstrapped. Actually there are many things. We just don't do them because the VC's aren't funding them either. Perhaps they'll go
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
You can live off a laptop, but that's not what mobile first is about. The desktop is not at all dead if the alternative is only reaching pad and smartphone users. Not even close to mortally wounded for business or home. My kid's school sw
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
Oh golly, a PermaBear blog. That's going to be upbeat now isn't it? The trouble with Eeyore's and Chicken Little's is they are always right. That is they become right if you wait long enough and then they are only right for a short time.
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
Aside from the bit about loneliness, which I regard as his personal problem, this is the lifestyle I aim for. I don't want to be on the road constantly, but my life and I love travel. I'm early on the path (see: http://smoothspan.wordpre
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
While I am skeptical about a continuous release cycle, Agile methodologies work well for Enterprise software. I've used them at all of my Enterprise gigs, including selling multi-million dollar license mission critical sales compensation s
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
Talking to people who just bought or just quit is great, but if that's all you do, a lot of key insights will be missed: - Talking to people who didn't buy, but instead bought a competitor. - Talking to expert users who've been with your
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
I like it! Now how do we put a similar incentive in place at the corporate level to get them to hire onshore?
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
Start with an audience, not an idea: Agree! In fact, start with a Content-Audience Fit if you really want to get somewhere: http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/the-very-first-th...
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
All good stuff!
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A Solo Bootstrapping Odyssey(smoothspan.wordpress.com)
2 points by BobWarfield 14y ago|0 comments
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
This sort of thing is what led to my bootstrapping a company instead of staying with the VC Startup Scene: http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/a-solo-bootstrapp...
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by BobWarfield 14y ago
I got a trek desk for Xmas. It's a cheap but decent desk that mates to a treadmill. I use it for email reading and breaks from heads down coding. Love it.

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